Sentences with phrase «plays surly»

In The Drop, a loose adaptation of the Dennis Lehane short story «Animal Rescue», Gandolfini plays surly cousin Marv, who together with Tom Hardy's reticent lunkhead, Bob, runs a «drop bar» — so called because it's where various local criminals stash their dirty loot — in one of Brooklyn's toughest neighbourhoods.

This trope — an actor playing a surlier, fictional version of himself — has been done to death already, and Don't Trust the B — leans too heavily on the actor's state of celebrity limbo, filling in late -»90s jokes and references where the real laughs ought to be.

Billy Bob Thornton might have been amusing playing a surly a-hole in the last several comedies he's done, but I think that tank hit empty long before he attempted another one in Mr. Woodcock.

Not exact matches

«If Labour's hopefuls are ever to make amends, it won't be by playing to imagined prejudice and falling back on the surly, inward - looking populism of the immigration debate.

In One Good Cop (1991), she played the strongly supportive wife of police officer Michael Keaton, for whom she successfully tackles the sudden responsibility of caring for the surly children of Keaton's late partner.

There's the crazy housemate (Tom Hollander, funny as a surly playwright); there's the kooky, damaged woman close to the main character (Lydia Wilson playing Tim's troubled sister, Kit Kat).

One of the nastiest, Mona Dearly (played excellently by Bette Midler), is about as mean and surly as they come.

The «Office» star was visiting Emily in London whilst she was filming for upcoming movie «Mary Poppins Returns» - in which she will play the eponymous nanny - earlier this year when he had the run in with the «surly» man at the airport.

Oppressed as a child by the puritanical, anti-theatrical strain of surrogate parent William Cecil (a wasted David Thewlis) and snivelling, hunchbacked foster brother Robert (Edward Hogg), the Earl of Oxford toils away at composing seditious verse in secret before uploading his cache of plays to surly Ben Jonson (Sebastian Armestom doing Orlando Bloom).

Given the demands placed on the actors, it would have been surprising if at least some of them hadn't been in as much a state of revolt as Fitzgerald, the surly and psychotic fur trapper played here by Tom Hardy.

Sometimes the two types of performances exist side by side: It's easy to sneer at Sandler getting in drag to play the braying, Bronx - born Jill in Jack And Jill, but there's visible effort (and sometimes startling, sweaty detail) in that character, as opposed to the surly, condescending version of a straight man that the Jack character lazily embodies.

This is the biggest Marvel Studios film to date — the story plays out on a global scale and the main cast reaches double digits — but many of its best moments are small, throwaway beats: Bucky Barnes (Sebastian Stan), who is cramped in the back of a small car, asking a surly Falcon (Anthony Mackie) to move his seat up; a starstruck Ant - Man (Paul Rudd) so giddy about meeting Captain America (Chris Evans) he practically asks for a selfie; Scarlet Witch (Elizabeth Olsen) teaching the synthetic Vision (Paul Bettany) how to properly use paprika in a recipe; Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) casually flirting with Aunt May (Marisa Tomei), to the alarm of her nephew Peter Parker (Tom Holland).

They seek refuge at the home of a surly skin - changer Boern (Mikael Persbrandt) who (unless he comes back into play in the third installment) adds absolutely nothing to the narrative.

Cast a surly, bad - ass, toss - out - the - rule - book LA cop, his character is so obsessed with nailing the criminal mastermind behind a recent spate of bank robberies (played by Pablo Schreiber), he stalks him in restaurants, sleeps with his stripper girlfriend and, in one of the more bizarre scenes, indulges in a shooting competition with him at a firing range.

Surly and scowling and yet decent and right, he is played by the ideal actor to embody those qualities, Tommy Lee Jones.

The same dog that was playing in the morning can then become surly by the afternoon, just wanting peace and some comfort.

There's plenty of action as Timothy (Jamie Mains) comes out from behind his surly exterior to express his rather juvenile and fumbly love for Jason's mother, Margerie, played by Janie Dee, followed by a gratuitous and cringeworthy scene in which they have violent sex, something Tim then brags about.

He's not another faceless soldier or surly white man looking for revenge — he's a tragic hero in a drama that might be bloodier and more sex - filled than a Jacobean play.

Throughout the weekend, players will be able to play as the boisterous Knight a.k.a Sir Painhammer, the surly Archer a.k.a Blackeye Bowgart and the aspiring world dominator, the Mage a.k.a The Earl of Evilosity.

Fortunately, the surly DJ — much eye - rolling at our request for Come On Eileen — saved the night by playing Nutbush City Limits.